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Environmental Management

This section focuses on helping businesses create and implement environmental management plans. Such plans address the environmental concerns relevant to a business and ensure that all of the businessâ€™s employees are prepared to deal with any issue that may arise while also adhering to all pertinent environmental regulations.

Documents

This EPA-distributed document is aimed at helping small business owners generate a useful environmental management plan. This guide tries to make certain that businesses are addressing all of the relevant environmental issues. It also includes information about offices and organizations business owners may go to for further information about environmental regulations and concerns affecting their activities.

This guide is intended to help businesses integrate environmental concerns into business decision making using the DfE Programâ€™s Integrated Environmental Management System (IEMS). It should allow businesses to create and implement a simple and straightforward Environmental Management System.

This manual is designed for small or medium-sized companies to develop an environmental management system and documentation process. What this manual hopes to do is show businesses how to improve, maintain and implement a strong and efficient environmental management system.

This report is intended to help federal agencies and offices integrate green purchasing into their Environmental Management Systems (EMS). It mainly targets those whose job it is to implement an EMS, reduce environmental impacts, meet green purchasing requirements, and/or buy products and services in a Federal facility. The report focuses on several requirements and policies which can affect a businessâ€™s EMS while also defining green purchasing and discussing how it can be incorporated into an EMS.

This workbook is a tool for small business owners to get the most out of their environmental management plans. The EPAâ€™s Practical Guide to Environmental Management for Small Business works with this document in order to help small businesses implement the most comprehensive and effective environmental management plan possible. Such a plan will ensure that the business is in compliance with all environmental regulations and that it is running as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

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